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No-poaching reaty: Apple, Google chiefs face grilling

Koh referred repeatedly to email evidence that included a request in 2007 by then Apple chief Steve Jobs.

Afp January 20, 2013 Less than a minute read

SAN FRANCISCO: Apple’s chief Tim Cook and Google’s chairman Eric Schmidt are expected to face questioning in a lawsuit accusing Silicon Valley giants of secretly agreeing not to ‘poach’ one another’s workers, according to officials and court documents.

Plaintiffs’ attorneys said US District Court Judge Lucy Koh endorsed questioning Cook, Schmidt, as well as Intel head Paul Otellini, after reasoning that high-level executives would know about restrictions on hiring talent.

During a hearing Thursday in her courtroom in the California city of San Jose, Koh referred repeatedly to email evidence that included a request in 2007 by then Apple chief Steve Jobs that Google stop recruiting Apple workers.

Schmidt was scheduled for deposition on February 21, while Intuit chief and Apple board member Bill Campbell was slated to be deposed the fifth of that month, according to court documents. The date of Cook’s deposition has not been set.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 20^th, 2013.

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